From Day of the Locust’s nightmarish vision of a perverse and corrupt Hollywood to Mulholland Drive’s dream of stardom turned nightmare, many films have explored the bizarre and disturbing underbelly of Hollywood. David Cronenberg’s latest film, Maps To The Stars explores this world through the director’s typically bizarre and unsettling vision. In Cronenberg’s nihilistic take on tinsel town, Hollywood is
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we take a look at the latest film in the blockbuster teen dystopia franchise The Hunger Games with Mocking jay Part 1. We also review David Cronenberg’s creepy new drama about the seedy underbelly of Hollywood, Maps to the Stars. There’s plenty of great new music from the likes of Ty Segall and Tweedy
Read morePride, which explores the hitherto unlikely partnership of striking coal miners and the gay rights movement in 1980’s Britain, is a highly enjoyable nineties-style feel-good British working class comedy/drama in the vein of The full Monty, Brassed Off and Billy Elliot. The film returns us to Margaret Thatcher’s Britain of the mid-80’s where economic rationalist policies were putting the squeeze
Read more“Built for Speed” on 88.3 Southern FM: 20 Years of Music and Movies Melbourne’s south eastern suburban community radio station 88.3 Southern FM is commemorating the 20th anniversary of the program “Built for Speed” this Friday night, 24th Oct 2014 at 8pm. “Built for Speed”, which is hosted by Dr Nick, CJ and Jimbo, is a music-based program with rock
Read moreThis week on “Built For Speed” we take a look at two of the more fascinating films for 2014, The Case Against 8, a documentary about the battle for same sex marriage rights in the US and Force Majeure a Swedish drama that dissects marriage and its assumed gender roles. There’s also plenty of fine music with some of the cover songs
Read moreIn the last decade a few films have used a distinctive approach to re-invigorate what was an ailing supernatural horror genre. Paranormal Activity whipped up some decent scares with nerve jangling use of the found footage aesthetic while Aussie director James Wan’s box office hit The Conjuring effectively employed a no-frills 1970’s film making style as well as a respectful
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